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Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Wednesday, 01 November 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsaptim-completes-disposal-of-us-nuclear-refuelling-barge-11258920

BWX Technologies (BWXT) has been awarded a US Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program contract totalling approximately $300m for the manufacture of naval nuclear reactor fuel. BWXT subsidiary Nuclear Fuel Services, based in Erwin, Tennessee, will manufacture and deliver the fuel. BWXT fuel and reactors power the US Navy’s Ohio, Virginia, Seawolf and Los Angeles class submarines, as well as the Nimitz and Ford class aircraft carriers. BWXT fuel and reactors will also power the Navy’s Columbia-class submarines.

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Wednesday, 01 November 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbwxt-announces-contract-for-naval-nuclear-reactor-fuel-11258968

Framatome has renewed its 2017 cooperation agreements with Technicatome. Loïc Rocard, President and CEO of TechnicAtome and Bernard Fontana, CEO of Framatome, reaffirmed their commitment to continue their partnership in the conduct of their industrial activities related to National Defense.

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Saturday, 22 October 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstechnicatome-and-framatome-renew-national-defence-cooperation-10106819

US-based BWX Technologies announced that the US Naval Nuclear Propulsion Programme had exercised contract options totalling approximately $1 billion for manufacturing naval nuclear reactor components and fuel.

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Tuesday, 01 March 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbwxt-contracted-to-manufacture-us-naval-nuclear-reactor-components-and-fuel-9513595

France’s Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Framatome and Naval Group have signed a six-year framework agreement for studies and experiments on materials used in nuclear propulsion.

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Tuesday, 01 March 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscea-framatome-and-naval-group-to-study-nuclear-propulsion-9514045

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) announced that it was set to deactivate and demolish the prototype for a reactor plant used for the first nuclear-powered submarine, a major step toward advancing environmental clean-up at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site.

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Tuesday, 15 February 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-doe-to-demolish-submarine-reactor-prototype-at-idaho-national-lab-9481309

The US Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management is to deactivate and demolish the land-based prototype for a reactor plant used in the first nuclear-powered submarine. The Submarine 1st Generation Westinghouse (S1W) was built inside a section of a submarine hull at the Naval Reactors Facility (NRF) in the Arco Desert, west of Idaho Falls.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Saturday, 12 February 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Preparations-begin-for-demolition-of-prototype-rea

The US Administration has issued an Executive Order on Promoting Small Modular Reactors for National Defense and Space Exploration, which it says will further revitalise the US nuclear energy sector and reinvigorate its space exploration programme. This includes directives to demonstrate the use of microreactors on military bases and also to ensure a viable US-origin supply of high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU).

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Thursday, 14 January 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-order-promotes-SMRs-for-space-exploration-and-d

US-based BWX Technologies (BWXT) announced on 31 March that the US Naval Nuclear Propulsion Programme exercised contract options in Q1 2020 with BWXT’s subsidiary Nuclear Fuel Services (NFS) totalling approximately $128 million for fuel manufacturing work in support of US nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers. Work under this 12-month contract is expected to begin later this year.

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Friday, 03 April 2020
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbwxt-subsidiary-wins-us-navy-contract-7853060

The US is heavily dependent on foreign countries for 31 minerals designated as “critical” to national security by the Department of Defence, including uranium for nuclear reactors and fluorspar, which is used in nuclear fuel, Forrest Remick, emeritus professor of nuclear engineering at Pennsylvania State University, wrote in Penn Live.

Mr Remick, who is also a retired commissioner of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said US dependence on foreign minerals has doubled in the past 20 years and called for “a diverse supply chain” for minerals including uranium.

He said the US imports 93% of its uranium needs, and a large share comes from Russia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan, whose state-owned companies are flooding the global market and driving free-market companies out of business.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Wednesday, 28 August 2019
Original article: nucnet.org/news/us-needs-diverse-supply-chain-says-former-nrc-commissioner-8-5-2019

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